...Adversity People deal with adversity throughout their entire lives. The way each individual's deal and overcome obstacles are different. People overcome adversity by learning how to live with it, developing a way how to fix it, or learning to move on with their lives. To begin, people overcome adversity by learning how to live with it. In the movie “Soul Surfer” Bethany Hamilton’s arm was bitten off by a shark. But she has to do so many task, making her life harder. Bethany had to learn to live with only having one arm. Everyday task and things that Bethany loved, like surfing would now by difficult. But Bethany couldn’t change the fact she had lost an arm. So Bethany tried and eventually learned to live with only having one arm. To conclude, Bethany Hamilton learned to live with the obstacle in her...
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...Facing Adversity At It’s Best Let’s say you are a surfer and about to be the best in town. What do you think will happen when a shark comes up and bites your arm right off? What would you do if as a young child you lost your legs and get looked at weirdly? Everyone who has their limbs should be thankful and less lazy. We all make excuses but Bethany Hamilton and Aimee Mulins don’t. Even though Bethany Hamilton and Aimee Mulins overcame adversity in different ways, it is important to see that they both accepted who they were in life. In both, the film and story both Aimee Mulins and Bethany Hamilton accept who they are in life. For example, Aimee Mulins took her disability to the next level. She didn’t want to be the weird girl with no legs. She wanted to be the fastest woman in the world with cheetah like legs! Who needs real legs when you can be the fastest one of all. She was opened up to much more opportunity. Similarly, Bethany lost her arm from a shark attack and was bitten above the elbow. Without the elbow joint, you can't move your arm. That's why her fake arm would only be for cosmetics. She did not wear the arm, instead she used a special board made just for her. It was built with a handle making it easier for her to...
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...Marlon Christopher T. Cadungog October 1, 2014 BSIT – 1B Ms. Jo Janine Nikkie I. Tuna English 1 Soul Surfer Soul Surfer is the inspiring true story of teen surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm in a shark attack and courageously overcame all odds to become a champion again, inspiring millions worldwide through the love of her family, her sheer determination, and her unwavering faith in Jesus Christ. This essay will cover some questions and their answers through explanatory paragraphs. Compassion: Changing People’s Point of View Why does compassion change the way we view things? Let us first define it: It is the pity for suffering, with the desire to help or to spare. The definition itself explains the answer of the question. Compassion can be the natural instinct of a merciful individual who tends to help mostly those who are needy as of certain individuals - who are more likely Samaritans - being practiced. Compassion changes our viewpoint because of this, since it provides us the courage and will to change and to be open for new possibilities and opportunities, as Sarah told Bethany that it could move people to do great things and can also provide a new perspective. It could also be considered as a life changer, as it can greatly influence individuals that have gone through several trials and problems. It can also empower us to be prudent; being persistent enough to do good things with faith in God towards other people, especially our loved...
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...“Faith it does not make things easy, but makes them possible.” – Luke 1:37 Bethany Hamilton grew up majority of her life surfing in her childhood. Then, one Halloween morning in 2003, Hamilton was surprisingly attacked by a 14-ft tiger shark, and lost her left arm, and was left with a masticated surfboard. After surviving this alarming attack, she wrote about her experience in her 2004 autobiography, Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board. In this autobiography, she explicitly states her faith and beliefs in God and how her steady dependence in God aided through the shark attack, and how God will never leave your or forsake you. She provides her reasons and evidence through her claim, but her evidence isn’t liable....
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...Writer, William Arthur Ward once said “Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.” Horace says how adversity can reveal unknown talents in a person that prosperity can not, and is completely true. When we are presented with adversity, we are furious at the fact that we must face it. We do whatever we can to fight through it and hope that our lives will get better. Once it is gone, we are a new person, we are stronger, smarter, and changed. We are now able to face new challenges that are brought upon us in our daily lives and battle it out to become a new and better person. Whether the outcome is discovering something, inventing something, or being able to do something, we are all changed to be better at something. Through adversity, people can expose unknown passions and beliefs they did not have before. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he and his family are taken away from their home in Poland, and are sent to Auschwitz by the Nazis, where he is faced with extreme adversity. Once separated from his mother and sister, his only goal was to protect his dad. He witnessed countless acts of murder and didn’t understand why this was happening to him. His faith in God was lost after wondering why he would let this happen to innocent people and wouldn’t help them out of it. After the...
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...Hamilton- much like Mullins- had lost a limb and could not do things as easily as she used to. The difference between Hamilton and Mullins is that Mullins took her misfortune as an excuse to joke around and be funny, while Hamilton continuously felt sorry for herself to the point where it seemed like she didn’t even want to try any more. It seemed as if all Hamilton wanted to do was wallow in her own self pity. And yet, in the end she was convinced that she could get better. She attempted to surf again and eventually got the hang of it, finding a new sense of balance. She is now an award winning surfer. Finally, the last, and in my opinion one of the most important parts of facing adversity, is being determined, much like how William Kamkwamba was determined to create electricity for his village. Using only blue-gum trees and bicycle parts, Kamkwamba has successfully created windmills to generate power to his entire village. He’d even offered to rebuild a man’s failed windmill attempt, showing how generous and selfless he truly is. He’s even managed to earn enough money for him to...
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...athletes were able to participate in sporting competitions. Both minority and disabled athletes have struggled to get respect and being able to play professional sports. These athletes have both faced discrimination since they are not Caucasian athletes. Especially in baseball. Baseball has always been viewed as a “white man” sport. For instance, in the movie 42 The Jackie Robinson Story, Jackie was told that throughout that movie that he doesn’t belong here and called racial slurs. Another case is Bethany Hamilton. Hamilton was attacked by a shark while she was on her surfboard then lost her left arm in the attack. Then people she told would never surf again. That she can’t do this and disabled athletes can’t surf. However, its ben reported that 10 % of the population is considered to have a disability. In today society both minorities and disabled athletes are treated better than were back when they first started to play sports. Minority athletes don’t face that most racial adversity anymore since in today society has grown to accept that any athletes can play the game. Mostly no cares if you are a minority and or a disabled athlete since if an athlete can compete in a competition then they are given the respect that they deserve. However, if athlete commits a crime like what Greg Hardy, Aaron Hernandez, Ray Rice, or Oscar Pistorius then that athlete only will lose respect and it will the reputation of the sport that they played. Also, I personally believe that people love to...
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...This book has been optimized for viewing at a monitor setting of 1024 x 768 pixels. MADE TO STICK random house a new york MADE TO STICK Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die • • • C H I P H E AT H & D A N H E AT H Copyright © 2007 by Chip Heath and Dan Heath All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Random House and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Heath, Chip. Made to stick : why some ideas survive and others die / Chip Heath & Dan Heath p. cm. Includes index. eISBN: 978-1-58836-596-5 1. Social psychology. 2. Contagion (Social psychology). 3. Context effects (Psychology). I. Heath, Dan. II. Title. HM1033.H43 2007 302'.13—dc22 2006046467 www.atrandom.com Designed by Stephanie Huntwork v1.0 To Dad, for driving an old tan Chevette while putting us through college. To Mom, for making us breakfast every day for eighteen years. Each. C O N T E N T S INTRODUCTION WHAT STICKS? 3 Kidney heist. Movie popcorn. Sticky = understandable, memorable, and effective in changing thought or behavior. Halloween candy. Six principles: SUCCESs. The villain: Curse of Knowledge. It’s hard to be a tapper. Creativity starts with templates. CHAPTER 1 SIMPLE 25 Commander’s Intent. THE low-fare airline. Burying the lead and the inverted pyramid. It’s the...
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...Acclaim for Yann Martel's Life of Pi "Life of Pi is not just a readable and engaging novel, it's a finely twisted length of yarn— yarn implying a far-fetched story you can't quite swallow whole, but can't dismiss outright. Life of Pi is in this tradition—a story of uncertain veracity, made credible by the art of the yarn-spinner. Like its noteworthy ancestors, among which I take to be Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, the Ancient Mariner, Moby Dick and Pincher Martin, it's a tale of disaster at sea coupled with miraculous survival—a boys' adventure for grownups." —Margaret Atwood, The Sunday Times (London) "A fabulous romp through an imagination by turns ecstatic, cunning, despairing and resilient, this novel is an impressive achievement. . . . Martel displays the clever voice and tremendous storytelling skills of an emerging master." —Publisher's Weekly (starred review) "[Life of Pi] has a buoyant, exotic, insistence reminiscent of Edgar Allen Poe's most Gothic fiction. . . . Oddities abound and the storytelling is first-rate. Yann Martel has written a novel full of grisly reality, outlandish plot, inventive setting and thought-provoking questions about the value and purpose of fiction." —The Edmonton journal "Martel's ceaselessly clever writing . . . [and] artful, occasionally hilarious, internal dialogue . . . make a fine argument for the divinity of good art." —The Gazette "Astounding and beautiful. . . . The book is a pleasure not only for the subtleties of its philosophy...
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